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§3319 Restriction on Treatment of Indirect Costs and Tuition Remission

Title 7 › CHAPTER 64 — AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND TEACHING › SUBCHAPTER X — FUNDING AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS › § 3319

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Money the Secretary provides to state cooperative institutions under federal–state partnership programs and certain other specified funds cannot be reduced to pay overhead costs or tuition waivers. The Department of Agriculture also may not charge those funds for overhead or tuition when a cooperative project is of interest to all parties and everyone contributes. There is an exception for international agricultural programs run by a state cooperative institution and handled by the Secretary, and for funds sent by another federal agency. In those cases, the Secretary may reimburse indirect costs but only up to the amount needed to run the program.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §3319

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Funds made available by the Secretary under established Federal-State partnership arrangements to State cooperative institutions under the Acts referred to in section 3103(18) of this title and funds made available under subsection (c)(1)(B) of section 3157 of this title shall not be subject to reduction for indirect costs or for tuition remission. No indirect costs or tuition remission shall be charged against funds in connection with cooperative agreements between the Department of Agriculture and State cooperative institutions if the cooperative program or project involved is of mutual interest to all the parties and if all the parties contribute to the cooperative agreement involved. The prohibition on the use of such funds for the reimbursement of indirect costs shall not apply to funds for international agricultural programs conducted by a State cooperative institution and administered by the Secretary or to funds provided by a Federal agency for such cooperative program or project through a fund transfer, advance, or reimbursement. The Secretary shall limit the amount of such reimbursement to an amount necessary to carry out such program or agreement.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 made identical

Amendments

to this section. The

Amendments

by Pub. L. 110–234 were repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246.

Amendments

2008—Pub. L. 110–246, § 7406(d)(1), struck out “and subsection (d)” before “of section 3157”. Pub. L. 110–246, § 7101(b)(4), substituted “section 3103(18)” for “section 3103(16)”. 1991—Pub. L. 102–237 substituted “subsection (c)(1)(B)” for “subsection (c)(2)”. 1985—Pub. L. 99–198 inserted provisions making prohibition on use of funds for reimbursement of indirect costs inapplicable to funds for international agricultural programs but required the Secretary to limit the reimbursement to amounts necessary to carry out the programs.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2008 AmendmentAmendment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, except as otherwise provided, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 8701 of this title. Amendment by section 7406(d)(1) of Pub. L. 110–246 inapplicable to any solicitation for grant applications issued by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service before June 18, 2008, see section 7406(c) of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as a note under section 3157 of this title.

Effective Date

Section effective Dec. 22, 1981, see section 1801 of Pub. L. 97–98, set out as a note under section 4301 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

7 U.S.C. § 3319

Title 7, Agriculture

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102